New kickoff times for SPS football games Friday

High school football games involving Springfield teams will have to wait for kickoff on Friday night – an hour, that is.

Springfield Public Schools announced late Thursday afternoon that the following games will now start at 8 p.m. out of concerns about high temperatures:

Parkview at Kickapoo

Republic at Central

Joplin at Glendale

Hillcrest at Camdenton

If your school has any similar new kickoff times on Friday, please email the News-Leader sports department at sports@news-leader.com.

About Kary Booher

Kary Booher covers the Springfield Cardinals and small colleges for the News-Leader. A native of southern Kansas, he is a graduate (and former sports editor of student newspapers) of Cowley County (Kan.) Community College and Oklahoma State University. You also may have read his work on the sports pages in Topeka and Pittsburg in Kansas and Jackson, Tenn., or once saw him in his youth water-skiing on Table Rock Lake near the Kimberling City bridge.

About High School Sports

The News-Leader's high school sports staff is comprised of lead reporter Matt Schoch and Chris Basnett, who covers Nixa for the Nixa News-Leader weekly newspaper and Ozark for the Ozark News-Leader. Get their perspective on local sports throughout the season.